“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

— C.G. Jung

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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

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“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

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